WolfGear Presents: Negima? The mage and the Gunslinger
Pairings: Negi X ku-Fei Kaede X OC
Chapter 38: Festival arc-Present vs. future round 6-Final shadow down,
I don't own Negima!
Evangeline A K McDowell vampire queen of darkness and official guardian of Mahora Academy; was in a pleasant mood this evening. After years of boredom something interesting was finally happening, she thought amused waited for the pending battle between Chao Lingshin, vs Negi Springfield and Jack McCoy. A bottle of aged wine floated beside her, Chachazero her first partner filled her glass. It was her fifth one tonight, but what did it matter she was a vampire! Her kind was known for being amazing drinkers.
"Ah yes, this is what eternity is all about good wine, and watching moral fools fight for their petty beliefs." Eva raised her glass her lips, letting the smooth taste flow down her throat, yes this was what it was all about.
"Hey there Eva," a voice called out making the vampire spit out her drink like a water fountain, spilling tiny red droplets all over her expensive dress! She scowled at the floating figure behind her, only the Dean would be stupid enough to dare sneak up on her, and if it weren't for the fact her powers would be gone in a few hours she would have throttled the old man right now.
"What do you want old man?" She questioned. He was probably here to try, and convince her to do her duties, and help with the protection of the school like always. But really it's not like she cared if this blasted school burned to the ground, or even if magic was revealed to the world, none of it would have any effect on her directly.
Eva waited for the Dean to answer when more voices appeared! Turning to her right she saw Thomas, Rubi, and Sayo floating in the air, each with some type of drink in their hand.
"Alright," Rubi popped open a beer can. "Let's get this party started! Make sure you pay attention Sayo-Hun. There's a lot you can learn from watching a real battle, then just watching a match."
"Right," the former ghost replied.
"Well I don't know about you girls, but I'm going to sit back and relax." Thomas uncorked a bottle of gin, and chugged almost a quarter of it down in record time. "Ah that the stuff!"
"What in blazes are you all doing here?" Evangeline asked annoyed by the fact that her perfect evening had just been crashed, by a bunch of idiots.
"Now, now Eva-Chan you can't expect to have the good seats all to yourself." The Dean said.
"I see plenty of sky."
"Yeah, but then we couldn't annoy you." Thomas butted in, stealing Eva's bottle of wine.
"Hey!"
"Be quiet their starting," shushed Rubi.
It was Jack who made the first move attacking with a fist full of flames, Chao put her arms up to guard her face, but it was a fake! Jack slid to his knees and delivered a sweep kick to Chao's feet knocking her of balance. A gust of wind courtesy of Negi blasted the Martian back against the railing of the blimp as while as shredding a good portion of her clothes into oblivion.
Activating the Cassiopeia on her back Chao disappeared, and reappeared behind Negi, but then Negi disappeared, and then attacked from behind with a powerful punch aimed at Chao's Cassiopeia, destroying the time machine in one hit!
"It's over Chao! There is no way you can beat both of us," Negi declared. He knew she wouldn't give up, but he had to give her one last chance to surrender.
Chao grinned, "Don't assume things are over till they actually are Negi-Bozou!" Hundreds of time displacement bullets materialized, and with silent command from Chao they all fired at once!
Negi channeled a large amount of power for one of his signature spells, "O 999 Spirits of wind and lightning Come together and strike mine enemy! Geminus Sagitta Magica!" Hundreds of wind arrows crashed into the bullets forming hundreds of black sphere that cover the sky.
Skipping the chant Jack fired his original Rabidus abyssus incendia at the Martian catching her off guard, and launching her into the air. Now they all were flying, Negi on his staff, Chao with her anti-gravity machine, and Jack on his spiraling fire wheels. The crowd below was amazed at the display.
"Chao I know you put a lot of effort into this plan of yours, and I hate to be the one to tell you this, but it's all for nothing. Whatever common tragedy you are trying to prevent for yourself will happen. At best you probably just delayed it." Negi sadly informed the Martian as she regained her balance. He remembered from last time Chao's selfish desire to prevent a tragedy related to her from happening was in turn her main goal, and still he could not deny her the right to try and change it, but he would not stand by her either. He would stop her no matter what.
"Shut…up, shut up, shut up!" Chao cried losing her composer for the first time. She would not hear it! Why couldn't he understand her? He suffered the same tragedy as her right, so why does he keep trying to stop her!
Regaining her composer Chao glared darkly at her ancestor, "Sorry about that, now Negi-Bozou if you and Jack over there really want to stop me it will have to be by force! Heed thy contract and serve me Red tyrant of Flame: Deus Vulcanus vultus!" Rune marks appeared over a Chao's entire body, and her hair turned the color of blood as flames spiraled around her in a deadly dance, and the raw power flowing from Chao was unimaginable!
"This is new," Negi muttered. Something was different from last time, true Chao's latent magic ability was powerful, but this, this felt like nothing he ever experienced before! The closest thing he could compare it to is when he used Magia Erebea to fight Rakan.
"Stop that shit right now!" Jack yelled. Negi may not know what Deus Vulcanus Vultus was, but he did and the harmful effects it will cause to someone like Chao were numrous. He had to stop her and fast.
But Chao wasn't listening; the pressure force from her own power was crushing her with unimaginable pain! And to make matters worse the pain in her head from earlier was back with a vengeance. It felt as if someone was trying to split her skull in to with a rock!
"I will not be denied!" Chao screamed focusing her power for an attack. The pain was even worse then she though it would be; then suddenly she started to sweat out blood! "Incendia quod brim calx surge continuo Sodom exuro verto sinners in pulvis of nex! Aestuo Estus in Divum!"
A large explosion filled the sky the air force of the explosions was enough to damage the two males, from just that little nick they were covered head to toe in scrapes and busies even with their defense magic at full power! To make matters even worse Chao was reading another one! This was something that Jack and Negi could not allow.
"Negi you block the next one, I'll take care of Chao with this." Jack held up a flask filled with an unknown purple liquid, but Negi had an idea to what his friend was up to, and nodded in understanding.
Gathering the last of his power Negi gave everything to this a last spell, "phasmatis of divinus ventus! filiolus of tempestas! adeo meus suffragium per thunder quod lux lucis , pario vox of turbo ventus , contero thy emendo! attonbitus of ruina!"
Negi finished his incantation just one second before Chao did, a tornado of wind and lighting crashed with Chao beam of fire. Both spells were at a standstill, but it would not be long before one tired.
Flying as fast as he could Jack weaved through the winds and the flames with some difficultly, the sulfur produced from the two spells was entering his lungs giving him a mean coughing fit, but he would not be detoured Chao was only a few more meters ahead, and with her completely focus on her spell she would even see him coming, and she didn't.
Jack blindsided Chao with his left arm wrapped firmly around her slim waist, he uncorked the flask in his right hand with the teeth, and forced the contents down her throat. At first nothing happened, and then Chao's body shined with a bright light, and began to shrink! Chao Lingshin genius, Martian alien and time traveler was now reduced to the size of a child wearing a panda suit.
"Ah now that better. You look much cuter like this," Jack smiled. Then he remembered the compostable gases floating all round him, and the spiraling fire wheels at his feet. "Oh shit," shielding the Chibified Chao with his body, Jack took the full blunt of the explosion that propelled them towards Chao's blimp, where Jack landed on the deck with a sickening "Crack" as he tumbled and rolled, but never once letting any harm befall the child in his arms.
"Jack, Chao!" Negi using the last of his strength floated over to them, and landed with a "thud" on the deck of the blimp. He use a medical scan spell to determine Jack's injuries, the results were less then pleasing. But they could be worse, he supposed. Jack had broken several of his ribs, and cracked many of his bone in his arms and legs. Thankfully nothing seemed to have happened to his spinal cord.
"I'm fine Negi. Check on Chao," Jack said weakly. A trickle of blood trailed down from the cowboy's lip, he tried to wave his hand but then quickly regretted as tremors of pain racked his tired body, apparently the numbness that usually followed a major injury had decided to wear off.
"She's fine Jack, but I can bloody hell see you not," Negi tried to summon up a small healing spell, or at least something to numb the pain that Jack was enduring, but he couldn't, he was too drained from that last big spell, and the flight over to the blimp; his reserves were completely dry.
Suddenly a voice called out, a sad, scared voice. "Grandpa Jaku', Grandpa Neg' Where are you? Where are Grandma Fei and Kae'?" Both mage's turned in surprised to see Chao with tears streaming down her face, and calling out for her grandparents; all of them with very familiar names.
Both of them were perplexed, apparently Jack's potion not only reduced her body to the size of a five year old, but her mind as well. But neither of them had the time to contemplate on the subject for much longer, because one of the blimp's stabilizers decided to blow up!
"Ah crap," they both cursed as they hanged on to the railing for dear life, then something donned on them.
"Chao!"
Jack and Negi watched in horror as the Chibified Martian slid across the wooden deck of the blimp, and through a gap in the railing plumiting down to the earth below! Both released their hold on the railing and fall to the opposite side of the blimp, hitting the railing on the other side with a painful crash. They reach in vain for the Chibi, but she was already well beyond their grasp.
Chao fell screaming her lungs out for help, the crowd below watch, and prayed for someone to save the falling girl; well above Jack and Negi watched helplessly, with no magic they were helpless to do anything for the time traveler.
Then the clouds above parted as a ball of flame speed down from the sky. As it passed by Jack and Negi caught a glimpse inside. Inside was the mysterious man clad in black known as Jakku, he gave the two a knowing smirk as he flew by.
"Leave this to me boys," in his hand he held a Cassiopeia time watch, activating it he disappeared and reappeared about a hundred feet ahead, closer to the falling Chibi, but still not close enough. Pushing his magic reserves to their limit, Jakku flew even faster, become a blur of orange to the all onlookers!
Chao was only a few hundred feet away from the ground now, and her gut told her it was over, but a light of hope still shined in her heart as she uttered the three words that always seemed to make everything turn out ok even in the worst situation.
"HELP ME GRANDPA!"
Then Chao felt a familiar arm wrap around her, looking up she saw the scared face of Jakku smiling down on her. "Grandpa Jack!" She cried clinging to the old man's coat.
Jack patted her head affectionately. "There, there everything is going to be alright," he smiled. Activating the time watch he and Chao reappeared beside Jack and Negi on the blimp starting them. "Ok let's see. You guys are here, Ku's over there, and Kaede there, fighting with Mana. She never changes." He laughed. "Ok um… how do this again?" He asked himself fiddling with the watch; seriously after over forty years you would think he would have this down, maybe he was just getting too old?
Suddenly a black sphere appeared around them, "Yes finally got it! Come on boys we have a lot to talk about." Jack/Jakku said as the black sphere closed around them.
Meanwhile Ku was about to join in Kaede in her fight with Mana when she was engulfed in a black sphere, and disappeared! Kaede looked over to where her Chinese friend disappeared baffled. She hadn't been hit had she? But that was impossible Mana was right in front of her and no shots had been fired, so how?
Kaede's thoughts were cut short as she too was sucked into a black sphere, and disappeared. Leaving Mana terribly confused as she stared at the empty space in front of her then shrugged. She would get her next time.
Negi, Jack, Ku, and Kaede fell in a heap together with Jack being on the bottom, and since he was still in pretty bad shape it hurt… a lot. Having four broken ribs makes you very sensitive to pain, especially when you have three people lying on top of you!
"Oh sorry Jack," they apologized climbing of the cowboy.
"Ok your sorry I know, don't worry I'll get over it." Jakku clapped sitting on a chair with Chibi Chao sleepily peacefully on his lap. He pulled a bottle of gin out of nowhere, and took a swig. "Ok now down too business, but first." Gripping the time watch Jakku summoned a time sphere over Jack and turned back time around him healing him. He didn't want to send him forward again, like last time because of the time it would shave off both their lives.
Once that was done he addressed the group before him. "I know you have lots of questions and I have the answers, so please let me explain." He told them knowing what they were thinking. Things would go much faster though if there were no interruptions. He always hated it when someone was trying to explain something and bam! Some prick interrupts because they were too stupid to follow along.
Ku raised her hand.
"Yes," Jakku sighed.
"Where are we?"
"We're in Eva's villa," he answered.
"How did we get here?"
"I teleported us here," he answered again.
"How did you do that?"
"Just be quite and let me explain!" He said frustrated at the blonde's questions.
"Ok, but I have one more question."
"What," he sighed.
"Where's the bathroom?"
"Over there," he points.
"Thanks." Ku said sprinting away. The others sighed exhausted by Ku's antics, she may be smart in combat, but she could be such an airhead most of the time.
After a few minutes Ku returned and sated crossed legged next to Negi.
"Ok does anyone have to use the bathroom?" Jakku asked. He receives four no's. "Alright let's start with reintroducing myself. My name is Jack K. McCoy… Senior I guess it is now. If you haven't figured it out yet I'm from the future. But not the one Chao from, or knows yet I guess."
"Ok um Jack? What do you mean Chao doesn't know, and how did you get a hold of a Cassiopeia?" Negi asked future Jack. He could tell this was going to get seriously confusing really fast.
"The future that Chao knows is mixing with the new future created when you and I travel back in time. You know the clock tower. Because of that things changed, lot of things if you'll believe some of them, and as for how I got hold of this watch here well, it's easy when the inventor is your granddaughter." He said hold up Chao. "Of course the one copy my past self-made ended up giving little Chao here the idea to change the past."
"Wait I thought Chao was my descendent so how…" Negi started, but a heavy object fell on his head.
"Read that," Future Jack told him. "It will answer your questions."
Chao's Family record book
First Generation: Negi Springfield – Ku Fei Springfield Jack K. McCoy- Kaede Nagase McCoy
Second Generation: (female) Nu Fei Springfield - Jack K. McCoy Jr. (Male)
Third Generation: (Female) Chao Ku McCoy
"We're both Chao's ancestor! And Ku and Kaede too," Negi exclaimed. He almost felt like fainting, it was really quite a load to take on at once.
"Not originally, but after our little trip to the past history was changed, I became Chao's ancestor as well, though it does explain where she got her fire magic no?" Jack said coyly.
Negi massaged his head, "still can't believe it."
"Yeah, I know my friend."
Kaede raised her hand.
"Yes," future Jack asked.
"I'm ok with the whole time traveling thing because I'm very happy you came here to Mahora, but I have to know what caused Chao to do all this."
"That love is why I'm here," Future Jack answered.
Jack raised his hand.
"What now?" future Jack exclaimed at past or was it present Jack? This took a whole new meaning to be angry at you.
"Ok before I or you start, what's going to happen to Chao's plan? We're not exactly there to stop Hakase from finishing the spell."
"Kaede taking care of it," Everyone look at the ninja confused. "Not that you're Kaede, my Kaede the one from future!"
"Oh... please continue."
Authors note
Next Chapter Chao's reasons
Next chapter will explain everything about the future
Omake Chapter: She's taking care of it.
The Mahora festival ground lay in ruins, the cause of this travesty was by none other than future Kaede, who after throwing down three bottles of gin (A habit she pick up of Jack) decided it was a good Idea to crash the blimp into the lake. Water and fire spread all over the nearby area destroying tons of property and causing millions in damage. Yes wife was just like husband, and in the mind of Future Negi who would find out about this incident when he opens his scrap book fifty years from now. Knew he still has to pay the bill, because they sent it to him through time.
So, 569,699,984 x 50 of interest = one heart attack